STANFORD, Calif. – Nico Corti and Sam Werner were named to the United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-West Region team on Wednesday. The two are the only Pac-12 representatives on the 11-member squad.
Corti, a political science major with a 3.53 GPA, just completed the best statistical season for a goalkeeper in Stanford men's soccer history. He finished second in the country with a school-record 0.386 goals against average and posted 14 solo shutouts, a Pac-12 record and the second-highest total in the nation this year. Corti didn't allow a goal in five postseason matches, becoming the sixth keeper in NCAA history to not allow a goal in the tournament, and also became the NCAA's career postseason goals against average leader (0.00) in the process. He ended his season not conceding a goal in his final 674 minutes and Stanford upped its NCAA-record postseason shutout streak to 1,214:20.
A science, technology and society major with a 3.39 GPA, Werner played the hero in Stanford's march to its third consecutive national championship. The College Cup Offensive Most Outstanding Player scored his fifth goal of the year and first game-winner of the season in the second overtime of Sunday's national final against Indiana, picking the Hoosiers' Griffin Dorsey and lofting his shot from 10 yards over goalkeeper Trey Muse to give the Cardinal the 1-0 win.
Of his five goals in 2017, three game in the postseason. Werner also added insurance goals in the quarterfinals at Wake Forest and in the semifinals against Akron, both 2-0 Stanford victories. All five of his goals came in the season's final eight games.
Stanford has had multiple scholar all-west region honorees each of the past four seasons.